Barnet is the author of "All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930," a nonfiction finalist for the 2004 Lambda Awards. She was a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review for twenty-five years, and has contributed to Smithsonian, Self, Harper's Bazaar, Architectural Record and Elle, among other publications. "Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World" is her second book.